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TIL Before fat losers, Abercrombie & Fitch didn’t want minorities representing them either

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X000X TIL that the Animals broke up because, while touring in Japan in 1968, their manager was kidnapped by the tour promoters, who were Yakuza, and put him up for ransom. After the manager escaped, the band was forced to flee the country or be killed by the Yakuza, leaving all of their tour gear behind.
ebWg TIL that when the first phone book was published in 1878, it was just a list of people who owned telephones, with no numbers provided
9Vvr TIL The English Horn is French, and the French Horn is German
Y7j5v TIL: Yankee Doodle was originally written as a dis track by the British
9JJD TIL that a bug researcher named Schmidt volunteered to be stung by insects, no matter the pain, and created the “Schmidt Sting Pain Index” even describing the sensations much like a wine taster